Save Internet Freedom: Support the Open Technology Fund

Global internet freedom is more important than ever before, but the current administration in the United States is threatening to dismantle the Open Technology Fund - the most effective tool Congress has in the fight to safeguard the internet as a secure democratic space.

The US Agency for Global Media, under the leadership of new CEO Michael Pack, is currently withholding $20 million in Congressionally allocated internet freedom funds from OTF. As a result, on July 31, OTF was forced to halt 49 of its 60 internet freedom projects, impacting 80% of the organization's critical work helping human rights advocates, journalists, and members of the most vulnerable communities. This forced cutoff jeopardizes the lives of millions of people worldwide who depend on OTF-supported tools to access the internet and news, and threatens the livelihood of countless individuals who rely on funding from OTF to help promote internet freedom.

You can help. The internet freedom community has organized a relief fund through Open Collective to provide bridge funds to OTF projects whose contracts are now frozen.

Donate to #SaveInternetFreedom today. Take action now to ensure people around the world are still able to speak, think, and worship freely online.

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    The Tor Project

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    ICANN

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    Georgetown University Law Center

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    School of Information, UC Berkeley

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    Partito Pirata in Italia (President of the Permanent Congress)

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    Microsoft

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    SMEX

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    University of Cambridge

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    Internet Society Hong Kong

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    Index on Censorship

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    IFF

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    Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

  • Chris Lawrence

    Grant for the Web

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  • Michael Dessen

    Professor, University of California, Irvine

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    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

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    Ranking Digital Rights

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    Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

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    Citizen Lab

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    DATACTIVE Research Group at University of Amsterdam

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    UMass-Amherst

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    Council on Foreign Relations

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    University of Denver

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    Tufts University

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    Digital Security Lab Ukraine

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    Citizen Lab

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    University of Iowa

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    FreeNet Ukraine Coalition

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    Open Culture Foundation

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    The Tor Project

  • Marianne Díaz Hernandez

    Derechos Digitales

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    Aspiration Tech

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    Media Democracy Fund

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    Lookout & The Hering Foundation

  • Dr Clara Brekke

    Durham University

  • Ken Montenegro

    National Lawyers Guild

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    Azerbaijan Internet Watch

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    Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

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    Thai Netizen Network

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    Global Voices

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    Digital Security Lab Ukraine

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    Arizona State University

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    Simon Fraser University

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    University of Colorado at Boulder

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    CUNY Law

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    China Labour Bulletin

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    Microsoft Research

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    Center for Democracy & Technology

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    Open Technology Fund (Disputed)

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    UC Berkeley, cLabs

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    UC Irvine

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    Superrr

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    Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

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    SIDN fund/Leiden university

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    UC Berkeley Human Rights Center

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    My future

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    China Digital Times

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    Freedom of the Press Foundation

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    Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

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    Co-founder, Tidelift; board member emeritus, Open Source Initiative

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    Princeton University

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    Harvard University

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    Mozilla

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    Center for Digital Resilience

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    Citizen Lab

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    Coworker

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    Stanford Center for Internet and Society

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    Digital Democracy Project, Demand Progress Education Fund

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    Internet Archive

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    Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality

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    OCCRP

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    GitHub

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    HACKFund.com

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    Citizen Lab

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    Access Now

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    United for Iran

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    Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

  • Harley Balzer

    Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University

  • Francesca Musiani

    National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

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    Reset

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    Internet Systems Consortium

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    SaveNET - Internet Freedom for Vietnam

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    Access Now

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    Harvard Kennedy School

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    Carnegie Mellon University

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    Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator

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    Taiwan Association for Human Rights

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    EDGE Funders Alliance

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    National Taiwan University

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    Board member Open Knowledge Foundation Germany

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    Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

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    Google

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    BBC

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    ETH Zurich

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    Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

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    Open Technology Institute

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    Center for Media at Risk at the University of Pennsylvania

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    Stanford University

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    UC Berkeley Human Rights Center

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    OTF Advisory Council

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    Freelance journalist

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    Global Voices

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    Wikimedia Foundation, CEO

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    University of California Irvine

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    Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • Paul Dourish

    University of California, Irvine

  • Marina Fedorova

    UCI

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    Red Hat

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    UC Berkeley

  • Mishi Choudhary

    Software Freedom Law Center

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    Sorbonne Université, LIP6

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    Universidad de San Marcos-Lima-Peru

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    Tufts University

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    University of Michigan

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    Free Press Action

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    Tufts University

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    Myanmar People Alliance (Shan State)

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    Former BBG Governor

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    HTW Berlin

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    Annenberg School for Communication

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    Tibet Action Institute

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    Internet Freedom Festival Advisory Board

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    The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto

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    DigitalOcean

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    Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

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    Google

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    Citizen Lab

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    Young Feminist Fund (FRIDA), Young Feminist Collective (Ghana)

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    Rutgers University

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    Front Line Defenders

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    Access Now

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    Open Collective

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    GNOME

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    University of California Davis

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    Red Hat

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    ISOC Hong Kong

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    Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

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    Progressive Change Institute

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    Bahrain rights

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    Mozilla Foundation

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    Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

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